Mario-Leander Reimer
Principal Software Architect
Passionate developer. Proud father. #CloudNativeNerd. Leander is continuously looking for innovations in software engineering and ways to combine and apply state-of-the-art technology in real-world projects. As a speaker at national and international conferences, he shares his tech experiences and he teaches cloud computing and software quality assurance as a part-time lecturer.
Mario-Leander Reimer
Principal Software Architect at QAware
Passionate developer. Proud father. #CloudNativeNerd. Leander is continuously looking for innovations in software engineering and ways to combine and apply state-of-the-art technology in real-world projects. As a speaker at national and international conferences, he shares his tech experiences and he teaches cloud computing and software quality assurance as a part-time lecturer.
REST in Peace. Long live gRPC!
Many teams are still struggling to implement good APIs, forcing RPC use cases into a semi RESTful world. Modern and efficient IPC is more than just doing REST. Take Kubernetes as example: REST on the outside, gRPC on the inside. We should use this approach for enterprise applications as well.
This session focuses on modern and efficient Inter Process Communication (IPC) for microservices. We start with a REST API, built using JAX-RS and Quarkus to briefly discuss the pros and cons of this approach. Then, we will extend the API with an efficient Protobuf payload representation in order to finally transform the API into a fully fledged high-performance gRPC interface definition. But that’s not all! To put some extra icing on the cake, this talk will demonstrate how to consume the gRPC service from a JavaScript web client and also how to completely generate a matching REST API from an enhanced gRPC interface definition to ensure full interoperability in a microservice architecture.
